Type in "log periodic dipole" in your favorite browser..several hits... expect to pay for the privilege of the coverage of 40-10 meters Jake K9WN _______________________________________________ See:
Try Thomas Shelby & Co. at www.criticaltowers.com<http://www.criticaltowers.com/>. They claim to make BX series using the original Rohn Tooling...??????? I've had it booked for a while, so it maybe o
How do.. What I've done is watch for a sale on 14-2 "Romex" inside house wire. Slit off the outer covering with a romex tool, split apart the cable, and you've got 750' of wire. 250' bare(the ground
Hi Joe, Yep, I've got a suggestion. Bury the end of the bad section in the concrete and sell the short base section or use it on another tower. 73 Jake K9WN __________________________________________
Tom, Looks like you've got LOT'S of hints on the concrete end of the project. Nothing on the trees though. When you trim the trees, don't stop at just the clearance for turning the antennas. Them pup
Why not initially mount the beam with the boom and elements parallel to the ground (elements would look vertical if the tower were raised). You should be able to snug everything up, raise the tower v
Kelly, You probably have the spec sheet in front of you for the tower, but somewhere in the back of my mind I remember seeing something about Glen Martin recommending/requiring guying of ALL their ro
Kelly and all, I just visited the Glen Martin site. I am in error. It says right there on the monitor, "No guying required". (See, I told you my brain was getting forgetful. Maybe I can blame it on "
Tom, I Googled "220 volt soldering irons" and got several hits... try it out. Jake K9WN _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "W
Marshall, I would go with Gerald's suggestion, and then go one step farther. It would be a great time to pull that 'ol tailtwister apart and make sure Katrina didn't do some internal damage. It could
"WD40 works great as a short-term lubricant. I've used it successfully to avoid galling on SS hardware -- but you have to apply it just before you tighten or remove the hardware. The problem with WD4
Hey 'talkers... A while back I found a boom splice for 2" boom someplace on the net. As luck would have it, I lost/can't remember the web location. (probably because of the hard drive reformat I had
David and TT'ers......... This is EXACTLY what I have been searching the net for!!! It never occurred to search Penninger (even though I knew I'd seen it somewhere), what with them being Recumbent Bi
Steve, If I remember correctly, you're the moderator of TT....... I have a question. I've noticed that the couple of times I've asked a question, or replied to a posting, that even though everything
Kelly, To get it off the truck, check into a auto tow/wrecker truck with a boom type lift. Lift the tower at the balance point, using some kind of STRONG strap (not chain if you can help it) and have
I just know someone on the list has the answer to this: Do Yaesu rotors have a "wedge" brake like Hy-gain?? or do they rely on gearing to keep from wind milling?? Looking to replace/upgrade and want
Lee, Your 1/2 correct. The main purpose of the base coil on the Butternut is for matching. The antenna is short on 80/40 so it is used as a shunt to ground to cancel out reactance. The better the grn
Peter sent: "Some imp of wickedness (and a desire to get on with the antenna work) led me to tell them that we were Cathode Followers - Low Mu, not the High Mu creed - and they went away apologising
Now if it was me, I'd block it with some really stout iron across the rungs, then let the tower down onto the iron......... and then I'd use a ladder up to the rotator.. My toes and fingers are to pr
I use 2x4s, usually. For a heavier duty tower, maybe 4 x 4s. Through the outer webbing, in one side and out the other, placed so that the sections cannot move at all and there is zero tension on the